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OpenStack Neutron has its known weaknesses. Neutron's problems are both endemic to its own design, and the software-defined networking systems that it plugs into it.

We’re proposing a Startup Founders’ panel from the most prominent networking startups to talk about the innovations in networking today. Panelists will give their individual viewpoints on how startup technologies are disrupting proprietary networking standards set forth decades ago. The founders will also offer a perspective as to why the venture community is so bullish about making million-dollar investments in this layer of the infrastructure.

Dan is responsible for the technical innovation and development of designing, building and operating Midokura technology. Prior to founding Midokura, Dan served as Chief Architect at Ballista Securities, a New York City ATS offering an electronic block trading system for options... Read More →

Eric is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research and coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of 451 research disciplines, with an extensive, hands-on understanding of a range of subject areas, including networks, virtualization, security and semiconductors and their intersection... Read More →

Before co-founding PLUMgrid, Pere was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems in the Research and Advanced Development team, where he led innovation in the areas of cloud, security and converged infrastructure. Prior to that, he was responsible for the architecture and technology... Read More →

Rob serves as the CTO for Big Switch Networks, where he spends his time internally leading software architecture and externally evangelizing SDN to customers and partners. Rob is an active contributor to open source projects such as Switch Light and Floodlight as well as the Open... Read More →

Scott Sneddon is Principle Solutions Architect at Nuage Networks in Mountain View CA where he spends most of his time evangelizing the benefits of Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networking. Previous experience includes Chief Solutions Architect at Vyatta Inc, an innovator in... Read More →